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The book presents a close reading of specific texts, allowing an introduction to the Brazilian novel from a comparative perspective.Chapters explore the links between themes, narrative paradigms, and techniques of Brazilian, European and North American novels and the development of the Brazilian novel.Contributors reflect on both canonical and lesser-known Brazilian works: from the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman, Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Ursula (1859) to Machado de Assis’s Dom...
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Incredible Things Do Happen: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2019 is an anthology of poetry from Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organisation. This anthology features the very best of Ireland's emerging poets for 2019, as chosen by Martina Evans, award-winning poet and reviewer. Along with a pair of superb poems, each poet provides an insightful piece on a favourite – a favourite poet or prose writer or musician or artist. Featuring Andrew Rahal, Angela Finn, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Audrey...
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En vísperas de la segunda Guerra Mundial partía de Israel rumbo a Europa un barco con veinte hombres jóvenes a bordo. Del otro lado del mar los esperaban veinte mujeres desconocidas. El objetivo: un matrimonio ficticio que permitiría a las mujeres huir de Europa y arribar a Eretz Israel. Pero cuando Jacob Markovich, un hombre gris a todas luces, se encuentra casado con Bella Zeigerman, la más hermosa de las mujeres que había visto en su vida, el trámite se complica. Una noche, Markovich...
| Автор | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen |
Монография посвящена нетрадиционному прочтению прозаических и поэтических произведений Варлама Шаламова в аспекте постклассической методологии, синтезирующей и углубляющей существующие представления о художественных стратегиях автора. Акцент сделан также на процессе визуализации словесного образа, что значительно расширяет возможности компаративистики XXI в. и предполагает выход в сферу других видов искусства – кинематографии и живописи, а также опору на некоторые постулаты синергетики в их...
| Автор | Л. В. Жаравина |
This collection of haiku poetry by a western poet is a wonderful contribution to the world of Japanese poetry.Alone in a tiny house in the Japanese countryside, Lucile Bogue awoke one night to experience her first typhoon. With the house shaking and rattling, the wind howling, and the rain pouring down in torrents, she was afraid for the first time in her life. That same night, by the light of a candle, she wrote these haiku poems. The morning brought calm and a brilliant sun to greet her. Each...
| Автор | Bogue |
MRS DALLOWAY (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. Created from two short stories, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the unfinished “The Prime Minister,” the novel addresses Clarissa’s preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and...
| Автор | Virginia Woolf |
THE PROPHET is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 40 different languages and has never been out of print. The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with...
| Автор | Khalil Gibran |
ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf’s lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf’s most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history....
| Автор | Virginia Woolf |
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors. Included are: <P> DAGON, by H.P. Lovecraft<BR> THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by Robert E. Howard<BR> MOTHER OF PEARL, by Fitz-James O'Brien<BR> THE WALKING DEAD, by E. Hoffmann Price<BR> SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT IT, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> THE STORY OF MING-Y, by Lafcadio Hearn<BR> BY MOONLIGHT, by John Gregory...
| Автор | Robert E. Howard |
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
| Автор | Mary Alice Downie |
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
| Автор | Mary Alice Downie |
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
| Автор | Mary Alice Downie |
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
| Автор | Mary Alice Downie |
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of...
| Автор | Anna Brownell Jameson |
